 *WELCOME to HOSANNA! – *Warmest welcome to all of you, especially if you are visiting or re-visiting! Please let our Welcoming Team give you our welcoming gift! Fill-out a yellow newcomer’s contact card so that we can keep in touch! We welcome you into this family of Christ’s loving arms and remain here for you as His body to grow and flourish together!
*DISMISSAL of children (kinder to 5th grade) to Children’s Ministry and Youth Group to Bible study + Lunch! – At this time, children from kindergarten to 5th grade can head over to Minister Sewon Cho’s children’s ministry – please proceed to the children’s chapel down the hallway to the left! And youth group can head to your Bible study and lunch hour with Rev. Sooyoung Song. *Preschool worship children should already be in the preschool worship room with Director Rachel, and will continue to begin simultaneously at 10:30am in the preschool worship room. *THANK YOU FOR ALL THE PRAYING & FASTING FOR THE HONDURAS MISSION! – The team safely returned on Friday evening. Thank you to all those who sent written-prayers! They will be given to the Honduras team leader, Rev. Isaiah Lee, this week. *HOSANNA INTERCESSORY PRAYER (HIP) TEAM! – Do you have a passion for prayer, collecting confidential and public prayer requests, and interceding prayerfully for one another and the mission of Hosanna Church? We are excited to create our first-ever HIP (Hosanna Intercessory Prayer) team – a group of prayer warriors who collect & organize prayer requests, are a constant stream of prayer before Father God, and meet occasionally to pray for the church. See Elder Patrick to join this vital ministry of Hosanna! *THANK YOU TO OUR SEASONAL WORSHIP & PRAISE TEAM SERVANTS! – Special thank you to sisters Hannah Kim and Hannah Lee for serving our worship & praise team throughout July! Pray and support their time of studies at San Marcos and Austin! *If interested in serving the sacrificial and dedicated weekly servants of the worship & praise team, connect with our Worship Minister Samantha Chao! *STARTING TODAY UNTIL JULY 26th – NOMINATIONS BEGIN FOR NEXT 2025-’26 CLASS OF ORDAINED OFFICERS (future Elders & Deacons) – NOMINATE THROUGH WEBPAGE LINKS! – We enter an important season of discernment for Hosanna’s future spiritual leadership. *The Church is only as strong as its servant-leaders. We ask all sincere and maturing followers of Jesus Christ to consider praying about stepping into the ordained office of Deacon and Elder (click the links for detailed information on definition, roles & responsibilities). Please pray for a blessed discernment process and ordination/installation of the ordained class of 2025-‘26 on our 2nd Anniversary Celebration Sunday, September 21, 2025. During the July & August prayer period, nomination to candidacy may happen in the following 3 ways – all online at the bottom of webpage Nomination Form:
*TODAY (7/6) –
*UPCOMING NEXT WEEK –
*PRAISE SONGS for TODAY! – Practice them and be ready to sing them on Sunday morning. Praise on, brothers and sisters! (1) Holy Forever; (2) Bless God; (3) Undivided Heart *TODAY’S BREAKOUT DISCUSSION GROUPS after-service in the gymnasium cafeteria – Today, spend some time in your group tables (group# found in the note page of your bulletin) and share the life of the preached Word. Pre-read, think through, and share this spiritual food in discussion with one another! “Tell the Whole Truth and Give Your Whole Self to the Holy Spirit” (ACTS 5:1-11). (1.) [v.1-6] Like Barnabas did earlier, Ananias and his wife Sapphira wanted to sell their property too and give all the proceeds to the apostles. However, unlike Barnabas did, how differently did they go about doing this (v.1-2)? By doing this, who did they lie to (v.3-4)? What happened to Ananias – the husband – when his scheme was uncovered (v.5-6)? How am I “keeping back” what the Holy Spirit is asking to be giving all? By doing so, how am I appearing Christlike, when I am really not? By being dishonest with myself, who am I really lying to? How can I fear God instead of fear being uncovered/exposed? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (2.) [v.7-8] Like her husband Ananias did, what did Sapphira claim when asked about the price of the land that was sold (v.7-8)? How am I saying “yes” when I should really be saying “no”? Like He did to Sapphira, how is the Holy Spirit giving me a second chance to be honest before Him? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (3.) [v.9-11] According to Peter, what was Ananias and Sapphira doing to the Spirit of the Lord (v.9)? When confronted with the truth, what happens to Sapphira, just as what happened to her husband Ananias (v.10)? What came upon the whole church who heard these things (v.11)? How am I testing the Spirit of the Lord by keeping back what I should be giving all – my heart, my resources, my giving, my time, my love? Am I more fearful of being discovered by people or by God who can instantly demand my life back? *UPCOMING (*notice some dates may have changed) –
*UPCOMING HAPPIEST BIRTHDAY TO YOU FROM OUR HOSANNA FAMILY! We celebrate you and love you in Christ so much! (*Let us know if we missed your birthday! We sincerely apologize) –
*KINGDOM EXPANSION PRAYER – This week’s Kingdom expansion prayers will focus on the 2025-’26 Hosanna Ordained Spiritual Leadership Scripture: Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you. (1 TIMOTHY 4:14) The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. (1 TIMOTHY 3:1-3) So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. (1 PETER 5:1-4) Prayer (by Pastor Chester): Heavenly Father, we lift up to You the new class of 2025-’26 Hosanna ordained spiritual officers of your beloved Church. As we begin the nominations and prayer period today, guide us into Your heart, Your choice, and Your calling for ourselves and those you want to encourage to step up in spiritual maturity to serve, rather than to be served, just like the Son of Man and Son of God came to do as a ransom for many. Father, You created our highest pleasure to be humble servants of our Creator instead of addicted servant-slaves to creation. May the role of servanthood in Deaconship, and shepherdship in Eldership, be the natural progression of a maturing walk with Your Son, as we learn to shine His image brighter and more faithfully into a dark and depraved Church and world. Let us not neglect the gift you have given us by those who have prayed for us and laid their prayerful hands on us. Let us aspire to the noble office of Deacon and Elder to grow our godly Christlikeness, manifesting before others the true character of Christ. Grow followers into servants, and servants into commissioned officers who suffer well with Christ in overseeing His flock, so that we might partake in His glory to be revealed, until our Chief Elder, Chief Deacon and Shepherd appears with our crown of glory, Jesus Christ, Amen & amen!
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